[ensembl-dev] Ensembl data_files is symlink ?

[Dan Sheppard]

Hi Gang Chen,

For a while some of the data has been symlinked on the ftp server, which 
is necessary to save space and reduce redundancy.

This release, a few more files have been treated in this way, including 
those you refer to in your mail.

You need to convince your ftp client to follow symlinks on recursive 
download. How to do that depends on which client you are using but it 
should be in the documentation for your client.

For example, a common command line Linux client requires

   --retr-symlinks

on its command line to do so.

Dan.